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Competitive Domain Analysis: What do "followed" exactly means?

I'm trying to understand the Competitive Domain Analysis report. I get the idea what an external link is; but I'm still not sure of what "External followed links" means. Are these the links from my site to any other external site what were actually followed by seomoz robot when crawling?

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A "followed" link is versus a "no followed" link. One, "the followed," allows link juice to come from the external site (outside of yours) to yours. If someone attaches a "no follow" attribute to the link for some reason, the link still comes to your site but does not pass link juice to you from them.

So external followed links are the ones coming to your site that are not kept from giving you link juice.

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